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Diary of a Weightlifter - Gravity Always Wins

By Thorin Gault e have a saying the Georgian weightlifter he has not competed since
Win weightlifting – who is considered the 2023.

‘gravity always wins.’ What greatest super heavyweight ‘Gravity always wins,’
this means is that no matter of all time was seemingly seems negative but is actually
how good or how strong you immortal in 2021. At the quite liberating. It is similar
are, if you keep putting more world championship he set to the idea that ‘nobody gets
weight on the bar, gravity world records in the snatch, out of this life alive.’ Once
will eventually win. clean and jerk; posting a you make peace with the fact
monstrous 492kg record
This is an especially total. It seemed inevitable that this life is finite AND
important idea for Masters that he would be the first you cannot lift ALL of the
lifters. Not only do we know lifter to break previously weight, it frees us up to just
that ‘gravity always wins, get to work and do the best
thought impossible 500kg
we also must come to grips total barrier. T-shirts were we can. Attempting to defy
with the fact that time will made in anticipation of the either death or gravity is a
eventually win and our top achievement. Then what recipe for misery. Focusing

numbers will inevitably happened? Gravity won, like on doing the right things with
drop. excellence each and every
it always does. Lasha’s totals
Weightlifting is a humbling started to drop, and while day is the path to both great
sport. Lasha Talakhadze – he has not officially retired, weightlifting and a great life.